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Grade 5 Science lesson plan: Food webs & matter in ecosystems

Topic: Food webs and the movement of matter in ecosystems (5-LS2-1). Adjust the settings, then copy the prompt.

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Prerequisite skills to check: plants need air and water and get energy from sunlight; animals eat plants or other animals; the difference between living and nonliving things.

Key vocabulary: producer, consumer, decomposer, food web, matter, ecosystem.

Warm-up idea: Ask where the matter in a fallen leaf goes after a few months on the forest floor.

Exit ticket idea: Students draw arrows in a short food web showing the direction matter moves and name the decomposer's role.

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